A Dissertation On Enthusiasm Shewing the Danger of Its Late Increase And the
A Dissertation On Enthusiasm Shewing the Danger of Its Late Increase And the
Thomas Green
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5. viiiap. Il. 0;z E N T H U S I A S M. 131 Thus we fee the reafon for diflinguifhing between regeneration and renovation ; though we can be but born once, yet our Hfe ftands in need of conftant fupport; and in our church we beg of God, " that when we have been regenerated^ and made God's children by adoption and grace, we may yet after- wards be d2i\\y renewed by his Spirit*; in which neceffary work God and man jointly concur-, and we are early taught in our catechifm to call upon God by dilig...ent prayer tor his fpecial grace ^ with- out which we are not able to do thofe things which he has commanded. To preach up regeneration, or direct baptifed perfons to wait for the new birth (though done with a pious intention) feems, however, not to be a very proper way of fpeaking, and may tend in fome meafure to perplex the minds of feveral, and perhaps make them flight their baptifm as an infti- tution of little power or fignificancy. As to the accounts of thofe wonderful and fud- den converjions, or miraculous changes faid to be wrought of late amongft the Methodijis and others, we may refufe paying any great regard to the ac- counts, without juflly incurring the cenfure of z/;?- reafonahle doubting, or being blamed for not looking on them as a revival of what was at the beginnings — Nor are we to dired: perfons to judge of their new birth ^ eleBion, or ajfurance of falvation, barely from fome raptures, warm affedlions, or fudden tranfports of devotion, which they may have felc at fome particular times \ or to expedt fome kind of private revelations to alTure them of their con- verfton and certainty of their falvation ; to judge by fuch marks are uncertain and dangerous, as they may be grounded on an unfound or enthufiaftic imagination ; nay the great adverfary of our fouls K 2 may * Coll.
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